Country size comparison
compared to
Christmas Island is about 521 times smaller than Ireland.
Ireland is approximately 70,273 sq km, while Christmas Island is approximately 135 sq km, making Christmas Island 0.19% the size of Ireland. Meanwhile, the population of Ireland is ~5.3 million people (5.3 million fewer people live in Christmas Island).
This to-scale comparison of
Ireland
vs.
Christmas Island
uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles. Learn more.
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